Hacker News: akerro

New comment by akerro in "Joblint – Test tech job posts for issues"

akerro — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:27:28 +0000

Sooo I just put one of the most vulgar, sexist, racist, homophobic text I could think of, also said extra points for knowledge of NodeJS and I got score 0. No problems found.

New comment by akerro in "All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot"

akerro — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:09:56 +0000

Just found Intel leaks and Gwent on github without any effort. Intel has a few repositories in different formats, plain copy of .svn directory or converted to git. TF2/Portal leak is there as well. All but 2 I found were made by throwaway accounts.

New comment by akerro in "[dead]"

akerro — Fri, 07 May 2021 21:27:39 +0000

Before covid kicked in on full scale I worked in a med-tech startup. We had a product that orchestrated full delivery of cancer drugs, some personalised research-type drugs produced only for a single patient, we supported 2 CRISPR researches on other drugs. First, clinics in US were closed, then transport companies (specialised drug-delivery planes with freezers), at this point we knew that cancer patients will be 3rd class patients and will eventually die without treatment, likely in pain. Patients weren't allowed in to clinics to prevent them getting covid, as they were high risk (as in health and financially, for the research).

Next week the company lost financial support, 100 devs and 70 testers were made redundant. Investors and board members handled redundancy particularly bad, burnt bridges with employees who were there for the mission. Pretty much all moved to fin-tech. No one I keep contact with is thinking about getting there back with our unique knowledge of the product and industry.

New comment by akerro in "Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer"

akerro — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:59:01 +0000

This isn't the first time moxie0 found something important on a street, is it?

New comment by akerro in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

akerro — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:00:49 +0000

>I think the name change does more harm than good because it trivializes the movement.

What do you mean? Name change of a default branch clearly fixes issues of racism in the software industry. Racism in IT = gone

New comment by akerro in "GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si"

akerro — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:11:29 +0000

> I have and upload them to the site, which is really outside of this project.

>Or is Nginx also infringing because when downloaded

No, you have to use Google Chrome for this.

New comment by akerro in "GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si"

akerro — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:23:51 +0000

They took down youtube-dl first, then torrent tracker, so torrent clients, browsers and ffmpeg are next.

New comment by akerro in "GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si"

akerro — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:17:26 +0000

transmission and qbittorrent next?

New comment by akerro in "GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked"

akerro — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:46:34 +0000

Like Mint failed to fork Ubuntu? Or Ubuntu failed to fork Debian? Or LibreOffice failed to fork OpenOffice? MariaDB MySQL?

New comment by akerro in "GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked"

akerro — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:44:28 +0000

>This has somehow gotten worse in recent years

I used to contribute bugfixes to Gnome2 in months before Gnome 3 was released. I observed product plan for Gnome 3 and was joking Gnome 3 will be just a red button that farts.

So many functionalities removed, slower response time, regressions and defects everywhere, broken user experience worse than what Window 10 gave us later. I moved to XFCE and then to Plasma.

New comment by akerro in "Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store"

akerro — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:13:11 +0000

It's similar situation to removal of slave/master terminology from IT. Without context such accusations are pointless. "I don't like the word you use so you are not allowed to use it." We're seeing the same thing. Apple doesn't like you using the word that's also name of a drug, so you're gone. No context needed.

New comment by akerro in "A Youtube video downloader written in Go"

akerro — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:07:07 +0000

1163 is 600+

New comment by akerro in "A Youtube video downloader written in Go"

akerro — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:53:53 +0000

yes, looks like it. only member in the organization is https://gitlab.com/iruoy who doesn't seem to be related to the official youtube-dl

New comment by akerro in "A Youtube video downloader written in Go"

akerro — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:11:36 +0000

moved to gitlab for now https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

New comment by akerro in "A Youtube video downloader written in Go"

akerro — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:10:51 +0000

youtube-dl supports like 600+ websites, not just youtube

New comment by akerro in "The Chaos Engineering Book"

akerro — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:58:26 +0000

AWS? You kids have good life, try Oracle Cloud, let me show you... oh sorry can't login now

New comment by akerro in "PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab"

akerro — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:26:11 +0000

> in the name of free speech

Hereby I revoke your freedom of speech.

New comment by akerro in "Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland"

akerro — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:38:24 +0000

Not only you need to have slightly higher taxes but also much less corrupt government at all levels!

New comment by akerro in "First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws"

akerro — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:24:46 +0000

So Bitcoin is officially money now?

New comment by akerro in "IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push"

akerro — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:24:53 +0000

https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/